On October 10, 2018, Chairman of the International Accreditation Forum, Xiao Jianhua, Director of China National Accreditation Center for Conformity Assessment (CNAS), was invited to attend the 53rd Session of the International Legal Metrology Commission (CIML) in Hamburg, Germany.
Mr. Xiao Jianhua, Chairman of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF), Ms. Mary Nielsen, Chairman of the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), Mr. Roman Schwartz, Chairman of the International Legal Metrology Commission (CIML), signed a new edition of ILAC on behalf of three international organizations. -IAF-OIML Memorandum of Cooperation. This is a new development that recognizes the cooperation between the two international organizations and the International Organization for Legal Metrology (OIML), and adapts to the certification system introduced by the international legal metrology organization.
The ILAC-IAF-OIML Memorandum of Understanding states that measurement plays a fundamental role in building trust between trading partners and confirming that goods meet regulatory and legal requirements; accreditation and legal metrology are core elements of national and international measurement consistency critical infrastructure; The OIML certification system, the ILAC mutual recognition system and the IAF mutual recognition system play an important supporting role in the global unified measurement system, serving consumers and promoting the development of industry, commerce and global trade. OIML, ILAC and IAF work complement each other. Sex, mutual cooperation helps to promote the development of the global international measurement system.
Xiao Jianhua gave a presentation on behalf of the IAF at the conference. He emphasized that at the global level, cooperation between relevant entities of quality infrastructure has jointly promoted the development of interrelated elements of quality infrastructure and better served globalization and sustainable development. IAF has always attached importance to cooperation with relevant international organizations, and has cooperated with relevant international organizations such as metrology, standards, trade, economic cooperation, industrial development, and in electrician, information technology, communications, automotive, aviation, food, agriculture, forestry, etc. The international certification system of related industries has provided support for the implementation of the global scope. He said that IAF will support the implementation of the OIML certification system and further promote the development of the IAF/OIML related joint documents.